#benka

[mansnooziesmoosmutzel]

"Cycling and swimming, watering strawberry beds, running errands for father's grocery shop, sitting by the river fishing, playing ball in Eva-Lotte's garden - not enough to fill the days. The summer holidays were so long. Yes, summer holidays were fortunately long. And they were the best invention ever, Kalle thought. It was strange to think that adults had come up with something like that. They really did let you run around in the sunshine for ten weeks without worrying about the Thirty Years' War or anything like that. Instead, you could spent your time with Wars of the Roses, and that was much nicer."

(from: Kalle Blomkvist Lives Dangerously (1951), by Astrid Lindgren)

[lyricalchrysanthemum]

Thinking about Alder and his many kids. Like he obviously had children at some point because Benka but like. hc

Iris sees him as a grandfather figure and calls him grandpa in pokespe iirc alongside Drayden so.. (Iris-Drayden-Alder family in general makes my heart so soft)

Marshal is his student but they can be more than teacher and student (father and son)

He adopted N at some point in his head at some point because boo Ghetsis.

I also hc him viewing Cheren as one of his own.

[random-brushstrokes]

Martin Benka - Field with poppy seeds (1916)

[sageandscorpiongrass]

hello <3 could you please do a webweaving on losing someone you love? thank you!

Either way, you're not coming back.

For whatever reason, I really struggled with this one. I wasn't sure if you meant loss as in dying or loss as in leaving, so I tried to make it applicable to both.

tender is not a bad word, K.C Cramm | Planet of Love, Richard Siken | A Self-Portrait in Letters, Anne Sexton | Count the Almonds, Paul Celan | Come Over (Again), Crawlers | A Valentine That Can’t Be Sent, Rosmarie Waldrop | Poetic Regulations, Mahmoud Darwish | Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi | @/small-planets | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | Instructions for the End, Jen Benka | Norwegian Woods, Haruki Murakami

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[bengiyo]

HI BELOVED, just passing by to let you know I absolutely ADORE your Jinta pfp 10/10, the "about to judge your love making skills with all the boredom of a thousand years old being" really suits you <3

Thank you, bestie. I knew my people would understand me.

[the-alternate-realities]

[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing SK-335497 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Postcard with a picture of the painting called Spring In The Mountains done in 1923 by Slovak painter Martin Benka. Sent by a Postcrossing member in Slovakia.

[littleragondin]

Me 11 episodes ago: knowing the end is going to be what it is definitively going to help me manage my emotions as I go through the story, it's FINE <(￣︶￣)> I'll just enjoy the ride.

Me now, on ep.14, as they keep promising each other that they'll never leave each other: ... it's worse (ಥ﹏ಥ) ... knowing makes it so much worse ... (ಥ﹏ಥ)